Scarabaeiformia | |
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Lucanus cervus, a stag beetle | |
Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Coleoptera |
Suborder: | Polyphaga |
Infraorder: | Scarabaeiformia Crowson, 1960 |
Superfamily: | Scarabaeoidea Latreille, 1802 |
Families | |
See text. |
Scarabaeoidea is a superfamily of beetles, the only subgroup of the infraorder Scarabaeiformia. Around 35,000 species are placed in this superfamily and some 200 new species are described each year.[1] Its constituent families are also undergoing revision presently, and the family list below will soon be outdated.
American Beetles lists the following families:[2]
List of subgroups of the order Coleoptera